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— in the case of malignancy, suspected cancer or other clinically serious findings, a copy of the report to the referring clinician within (1) business day following discovery of the condition,

— provided by GMC registered radiologists who are UK based.

Diagnostic report + Images:

— within 3 days of examination in prescribed reporting format,

— referee to have access to reporting individual for follow up questions.

Interoperability:

— GP IT, Acute and Community systems,

— Health Information Exchange (Cerner),

— receive requests, transfer and send results/data over a NHS N3 compliant secure connection or equivalent, whilst keeping up to date with local systems and process developments.

Good clinical/industrial practice:

— CQC registered,

— quality standards as defined by CQC, Royal College of Radiologists.

Staff:

— have requisite training, qualifications and professional registrations as specified by the competent authority for that diagnostic investigation or recognised voluntary registration scheme,

— are able to diagnose clinically significant or serious pathology,

— have performed the minimum specified required number of diagnostic investigations.

Location:

— provision for MRI, Ultrasound, Cardiac, DEXA and X-ray services available in each of the 5 boroughs or within 1 mile of the neighbouring NCL borough(s) boundary,

— access to good transport links essential and must be taken into consideration when a provider establishes a service location,

— NCL CCGs would not expect patients to have more than a 5-10 minute walk from the nearest transport link and would expect access to local disabled parking,

— explore options to develop an extended range of community based diagnostics informed by the strategic direction set out in the NHS Long Term Plan, to inform the development of services in the community and primary care across at multiple borough locations across the 5 NCL boroughs and innovative Ways of working: commissions are expecting to agree a Local Variation to National tariff prices.

Further details of these requirements which can be found within the published tender documentation and service specification.

II.2.5) Award criteria

Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents

II.2.6) Estimated value

Value excluding VAT: 30 000 000.00 GBP

II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system

Duration in months: 60

This contract is subject to renewal: Yes

Description of renewals:

The contract value ranges between approximately 25 000 000 GBP to 30 000 000 GBP inclusive VAT over a 5 year contract term consisting of an initial 3 years + possible further 2 years (extended in multiples of 6 months, up to a maximum of 24 months in total).

II.2.9) Information about the limits on the number of candidates to be invited

II.2.10) Information about variants

Variants will be accepted:
No

II.2.11) Information about options

Options:
No

II.2.12) Information about electronic catalogues

Tenders must be presented in the form of electronic catalogues or include an electronic catalogue

II.2.13) Information about European Union funds

The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
No

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1) Description

IV.1.1) Type of procedure

Open procedure

IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
No

IV.2) Administrative information

IV.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure

Notice number in the OJ S:

2019/S 085-203812

IV.2.2) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

Date:
12/07/2019

Local time: 10:00

IV.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted

EN

IV.2.6) Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender

Duration in months: 6 (from the date stated for receipt of tender)

IV.2.7) Conditions for opening of tenders

Date:
12/07/2019

Local time: 10:00

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.1) Information about recurrence

This is a recurrent procurement:
Yes

Estimated timing for further notices to be published:

The contract value ranges between approximately 25 000 000 GBP to 30 000 000 GBP inclusive of VAT over a 5 year contract term consisting of an initial 3 years + possible further 2 years (extended in multiples of 6 months, up to a maximum of 24 months in total).

VI.3) Additional information

The services that are the subject of this notice are covered by the Light Touch Regime are set out at Schedule 3 (social and other specific services) of PCR 2015. If the value of the contract is over 615 278 GBP the Contracting Authority must advertise it in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU), although there is flexibility as to the design of the remainder of the procurement process. The commissioner is not voluntarily following any other part of the regulations. The procedure that the commissioner is following will be set out in future documents yet to be published. The process will be similar to open procedure process under the regulations but, for avoidance of doubt, the commissioner is not running the process as though the open procedure under the regulations applies and so reserves the right to depart from that procedure at any point.

Expressions of interests will be completed on submission of the tender. The deadline for submitting a completed tender is at 10:00 a.m. on 12.7.2019. It is anticipated that that three bidders with the lowest adjusted price per point quality score will be invited to a presentation/interview meeting on the 15.8.2019.

VI.4) Procedures for review

VI.4.1) Review body

NELCSU

75-77 Worship Street

London

EC2A 2DU

UK

E-mail: nelcsu.clinical-procurement@nhs.net

VI.4.2) Body responsible for mediation procedures

NELCSU

75-77 Worship Street

London

EC2A 2DU

UK

VI.4.4) Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained